Perl Vs Python

WP warrenpstma at _______.com.hotmail
Wed Feb 26 17:03:03 EST 2003


Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <698f09f8.0302260719.32732359 at posting.google.com>,
> Jeremy Fincher <tweedgeezer at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>"Bo M. Maryniuck" <b.maryniuk at forbis.lt> wrote in message
>>news:<mailman.1046253391.9828.python-list at python.org>...
>>
>>>- You can not provide the bytecode for end-customer 
>>>  if you would not like to show him the sources.
>>
>>Considering that Python bytecode can be trivially decompiled into
>>rather similar source to that which it was compiled from, this isn't
>>really an advantage.
>>
> 
> 
> It is in some circles, including several
> which pay real money for the difference.


Perl SOURCE is slightly harder to understand than Python BYTECODE.

Ie:

ie "cat my-cgi.pyc" versus "cat my-cgi.pl".

:-)

Warren





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